Debt collection complaints in North Texas have paralleled a nationwide surge. Experts and data attribute the spike to higher ...

Instead, the calls kept coming, day after day, each one a reminder that something had gone sideways with his plan to get ahead of his credit card balances. Like many Americans trying to take control ...

A new report shows consumer debt cases have surged in Massachusetts. Legislation to reduce the interest rate companies can charge when they win have so far failed.

The Federal Trade Commission logged over 140,000 consumer complaints about debt collection in the second quarter — a 220% jump from the same period a year earlier. Georgia, Texas and Florida recorded ...

With federal oversight in retreat, deep-pocketed collection companies are aggressively pursuing down-and-out consumers who are struggling with record levels of credit card debt. Meanwhile, consumer ...

Collectively, Americans owe $1.23 trillion on their credit cards, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. However, despite the overall uptick, there is a growing divide ...

Black Americans have been systematically excluded from wealth accumulation through policies and practices that increase debt burdens and limit asset building, leading to chronic financial ...

LegalShield Index rises 10% in 2025, reaching highest sustained level in years as Americans rely on credit to maintain spending Consumer Finance Subindex surges 6.7% in Q4 as households increasingly ...

Consumer debt climbed across much of the United States in 2025, but nowhere more than in Maryland, according to a new analysis from LendingTree. The report shows that Maryland residents increased ...

When margin debt surges 45% while consumer sentiment plummets to near-record lows, history says a crash follows. Thursday, it started. Nvidia beat earnings by billions, but the market didn’t care, ...

Rhode, who has been helping people with debt since 1994, built the tools to counter an industry practice he has observed for decades: most “free” online debt tools are lead generators that collect ...